Option 2 for clear vision from rear turret 75 Sqn (RNZAF) Lancaster
Pic 1 shows the Mk.X from Canada.
This one is from 75 Sqn (RNZAF) and is a Mk.1
Visible difference is the complete lack of the armour plate added to protect the gunner.
Funny how instead of cutting the whole perspex window out and leaving the poor sod to freeze completely, the Kiwis made a SLIDING section for clear view.
Smart buggers them Kiwi's.
Also note the line running up and back from the lower right hand corner of the turret. What is it?
and how'd we get onto the rear turrets? all that is to be said is that many different gunners "customized" their turrets with regards to their vision panels, some removed them completely, others cut them in half it was up to the gunner really, and which line do you mean? maybe you can circle it or something like that?
RE the production, me asking you to re-think was partly due to me being pedantic as the RAF used roman numerals up to and including Mk.XX, then reverted to Arabic numerals, so it should be the lancaster Mk.I, not Mk.1
next there are some mistakes with your list, this is the "Lancaster Consortium" or "Lancaster Group", either is acceptable, and they were responsible for the production of lancasters, lead, of course, by A.V.Roe & Company Limited, the factories in the group that produced the Mk.I were as follows
Avro-
Chadderton (including the Woodford site)
Yeadon
the Woodford site was not considered a manufacturing site by the group, it was first and formost an assembly plant for lancasters, so seven factories produced the Mk.I..........
It appears that the turret in the first image had a sliding perspex panel at one time, but then that portion of the perspex was then removed completely.
The line in question is the flexible oxygen hose coming from the oxygen economiser mounted on the outside of the armour plate. The gunner would have connected his oxygen mask to the opposite end of this hose.
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